“I grew up in a community where it was not the exception to be a good girl. It was sort of expected. And all of my friends were good girls too, and my boyfriends were good boys. Everybody was pretty nice. And that affects how I write my characters. There aren't very many bad guys in my novels.” WritingCharacterGuyGirlCommunityBoysNovelNiceGrewGrew UpMy FriendsExpectedExceptionBad GuysMy BoyfriendGood GirlGood Boy Author:Stephenie Meyer
“Before 9/11, I was playing a wide range of characters. I would play a lover, a cop, a father. As long as I could create the illusion of the character, the part was given to me. But after 9/11, something changed. We became the villains, the bad guys. I don't mind to play the bad guy as long as the bad guy has a base.” MindLongPlayCharacterGuyFatherGivenChangedLoversIllusionWideRangeVillainCopBad Guys Author:Navid Negahban
“The 'Rescue Me' gig was a unique opportunity to play a character - a misanthropic, angry guy - who was so contrary to how people think of me.” PeopleThinkingPlayCharacterGuyOpportunityUniqueAngryContraryRescueGigsThink Of MeMisanthropicUnique OpportunitiesRescue Me Author:Michael J. Fox
“Well, I think probably when I first got in the business, I wasn't thinking of being strictly a character actor. But I knew I wanted to be a working actor, and as the years have gone on, I just naturally evolved into that. Because, y'know, I'm not a leading guy. Never was.” ThinkingKnowsYearsFirstsWellsCharacterWantedGuyActorsGoneCharacter Actors Author:Stephen Root
“To be the leading man it's about the celebrity and the looks, and it's tough to do that. People who do it great are people like Tom Cruise and Will Smith - they're built for that. I ain't. I'm more of a character guy.” PeopleMenLooksCharacterGuyToughBuiltTomsCruise Author:Jamie Foxx
“It's great to have the chance to play a character before he goes to the dark side, or the yellow side if you will. Normally, you don't get that opportunity. The narrative of a movie usually demands that you are that guy from the start.” IfsPlayCharacterGuyOpportunitySidesDarkChanceDemandNarrativeYellowThat GuyDark Side Author:Mark Strong
“When you play a character with power and energy, people lock into that and go, "Oh, this must be the guy."” PeoplePlayCharacterGuyEnergyLocks Author:Jeremy Piven
“Aladdin' was probably my favorite Disney animation when I was a kid. The animation was great and Robin Williams was unbelievable as the Genie. 'Aladdin' was an amazing adventure and the lead character was a hero for guys, which I loved. It wasn't a princess or a girl beating the odds; it was a street rat. That seemed really cool to me.” CharacterKidsGuyGirlStreetsAdventureHeroMy FavoritePrincessOddsRatsUnbelievableAnimationReally CoolRobinsGeniesLead CharactersDisney Animation Author:Zachary Levi
“I had given thought to acting, but I never really had a good enough opportunity or a character who made sense and paralleled my life a little bit. I feel like I'm one of the poster boys for a bad guy in a movie. I feel like I'm a good person to play a bad guy in a movie. I can say that.” FeelsLittlesPersonsMadeI CanEnoughPlayCharacterGuyOpportunityGivenBitsActingBoysLittle BitGood EnoughBad GuysGood PersonPosters Author:Gucci Mane
“You have to understand that I'm not just some guy who voices characters in animated movie and TV shows.” CharacterShowsGuyVoiceTvsTv ShowsAnimatedAnimated Movies Author:Jack McBrayer
“I'd say that on 'Friends' my character was the guy bouncing around the room. I'm no longer that guy, necessarily, in my life. I used to be. But I'm not now.” CharacterUsedGuyRoomsUsed To BeThat Guy Author:Matthew Perry
“I'm from Port Arthur, Texas! Little guy! Little character guy from one of the saddest oil-refinery towns in America. And here I was driving over to Beverly Hills, to 20th Century Fox, to be on 'M*A*S*H!'” LittlesCharacterAmericaGuyCenturyTownsOilDrivingHillsTexasFoxes20th CenturyPortSaddestArthurBeverly HillsRefinery Author:G.W. Bailey
“Y'see, I get so bored so easily. I like to start with a clean slate each time. Sure, I'll have characters drop in and out of books but the main cast of characters always changes. Maybe I'm wrong but I think if had the same joe detective guy or gal, I wouldn't write them as well; I wouldn't do as good a job.” IfsThinkingWritingWellsBookCharacterJobsGuyCleanCastsBoredDetectivesSlateGalsClean SlateSo Bored Author:Carl Hiaasen
“The Olympics were produced absolutely the same way from 1960 through 1988. It was always the Western World against the Eastern Bloc. You didn't even have to spend one second developing the character of any of the Eastern Bloc athletes. It was just good guys and bad guys.” WorldWayCharacterGuyWesternAthleteDevelopingOlympicsEasternBad Guys1960sGood GuyWestern World Author:Dick Ebersol
“A character on screen that's the 'good guy' or the 'bad guy,' they're never interesting. There's got to be an internal struggle, the duality is important to find.” ImportantCharacterGuyInterestingStruggleScreensInternalsBad GuysDualityGood GuyInternal Struggle Author:Bill Skarsgard
“Interesting characters are troubled characters. The only problem I've had in my business is very few people - unfortunately, very vocal - confusing the difficult role that I play with me. I play these guys, but I'm not like them. I've been accused of being difficult to work with.” PeoplePlayCharacterProblemGuyDifficultInterestingRolesConfusingAccusedVocalInteresting Characters Author:Val Kilmer
“On the one hand, you have these huge budget films that cost millions of dollars. They are effects driven, they don't have well known actors in them, and they are making money. Well, some of them are. One the other hand, you have Stallone and Statham, and guys like DeNiro and Pacino, and Costner, who are all trying to make movies about real people. They are interested in character driven projects.” PeopleTryingWellsRealCharacterHandsFilmGuyActorsKnownMillionsEffectsHugeCostProjectsDollarsDrivenMaking MoneyBudgetsWell Known Author:Dolph Lundgren
“I liked the idea that my character was not gonna be the typical dumb guy that I play, typically. I also loved the fact that it was dealing with kind of adult-extended adolescence, which I think is always interesting - a bunch of people that don't wanna grow up.” PeopleThinkingKindIdeasPlayCharacterFactsGuyGrowsInterestingGrowing UpAdultsBunchDumbAdolescenceTypicalDumb Guy Author:Jim Gaffigan
“I'm drawn to the classic antihero, the guy who's probably made a bunch of mistakes and really has the capacity to go either way. That's the most interesting type of character for me to watch, to see what decisions they'll make. There's a lot of gray area there for a writer to explore.” WayMadeCharacterGuyDecisionInterestingMistakeWatchesTypeAreasCapacityBunchClassicGrayMost InterestingGray AreaAntiheroes Author:Kurt Sutter
“Most people are middle class. Most people do wish their lives were better than they are. And I think by making my main characters ordinary, average guys, it helps readers identify with their problems. It also helps ground the supernatural events that follow in a recognizable reality and perhaps gives some of my wilder scenarios a little verisimilitude.” PeopleThinkingGivingLittlesCharacterHelpingProblemRealityGuyWishClassMiddleEventsReaderOrdinaryAverageMiddle ClassScenariosMain CharactersWilder Author:Bentley Little
“[Ed Grimley] lives in a retirement home in New Jersey. It's called the Retirement Home in New Jersey for Characters Who Were Interesting in the '80s for About an Hour. He's there with the Whiners, Gumby and Jon Lovitz's 'That's the ticket' guy.” CharacterHomeGuyHoursInterestingRetirementTickets80sJerseyNew JerseyWhinersRetirement Homes Author:Martin Short
“When I do a movie, I have the script. I know how it begins and how it ends. I know what my character does and where he's going. If I have ideas I want to express or changes I want to make, there's one guy: the director. It's different in television.” IfsKnowsWantDoeIdeasDifferentEndsCharacterGuyKnow HowTelevisionDirectorsScripts Author:Holt McCallany
“I have done scenes as Harvey Two-Face. It's interesting. I won't tell you exactly what we're going for, but I think that I can say that it will use all of today's technology to create this character. He's going to be interesting, and I think that's what makes this character important in the movie-you get to see him as he was before, as in the comic books. Harvey is a very good guy in the comic books. He's judicious. He cares. He's passionate about what he loves and then he turns into this character. So you will see that in this film.” ThinkingI CanTwoImportantBookDoneCharacterUseCareTodayFilmFacesGuyTurnsInterestingTechnologySceneVery GoodPassionateComicComic BookGood GuyHarvey Author:Aaron Eckhart
“I think most teen comedies are probably played in a way that aren't geared towards people that are wanting to be entertained but also [see] something that has a lot of heart to it. The things we do in the movie - it has a lot of heart, and also it's really smart. The people and the characters that we are, we're really intelligent people that are using our tactics to get back at a guy. The moral of being who you are, and trusting yourself, finding your inner strength - I think that's something that most teen movies don't really dial into.” PeopleThinkingWayHeartCharacterGuyMoralComedyFindingsSmartIntelligentWho You AreInner StrengthGet BackTacticsReally Smart Author:Brittany Snow
“It's certainly more interesting for me as an actor, but I think it's also more interesting for the audience to see three-dimensional characters, rather than just a bad guy or a good guy.” ThinkingCharacterGuyThreeActorsInterestingAudienceBad GuysGood Guy Author:Nicholas Lea
“I always prefer the character moments. For me, personally, whether I'm shooting the gun or not shooting the gun, I really don't care. I'm the guy who's like, "Whatever you want me to do." But, I really get excited about the character moments that are steeped in emotion when the stakes are high.” WantMomentsCharacterCareGuyEmotionGunDon't CareExcitedShootingStakesWant MeYou Want Me Author:Brandon Jay McLaren
“I always believe, with any kind of hero, that you want to believe that their decision-making is right. That ultimately, I can trust what that guy's sense of right and wrong will be. Even in a vigilante movie, where you are going against the law by definition, you still want to agree with the fact that your character is breaking the law.” WantBelieveKindStillsI CanCharacterFactsLawGuyDecisionHeroAgreeDefinitionsDecision MakingWhere You AreAlways BelieveThat GuyWhere You Are GoingBreaking The LawVigilante Author:Lorenzo di Bonaventura
“The character can never be static from book to book. People might think you just come up with a new plot and stick this guy in. Well, he has to be as new as the plot every time.” PeopleThinkingWellsBookCharacterMightGuySticksCome UpPlotThis GuyStatic Author:Michael Connelly
“I'd like to be the John Wayne of the '90s. Not in terms of being the macho guy, but as a solid male leading character. Making an action-adventure comedy that kids can see with their families is a natural extension of what I did in wrestling.” CharacterKidsActionGuyTermNaturalComedyAdventureMalesWrestlingExtensionsWayneMacho Author:Hulk Hogan
“When I moved to L. A. with this little wimpy garage band, the first people we met were the Doors. Then we met Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin. All of the people who died of excess were our big brothers and sisters. So I said to myself: How do you become a legend and enjoy it? The answer is to create a character as legendary as those guys and leave that character on the stage.” PeopleFirstsLittlesSaidCharacterBigsGuyEnjoyAnswersDoorsStageBrotherMetsBandDiedMovedLegendsExcessBrothers And SistersGarageLegendaryHendrix Author:Alice Cooper
“I have always been business minded, always been sorta an entrepreneurial guy; I played a character on Felicity that was modeled after me, actually.” CharacterGuyEntrepreneurialFelicityBusiness Minded Author:Greg Grunberg
“Husbands and wives, if you guys don’t have a beautiful marriage, a loving marriage, a romantic marriage you are ruining your eeman! You have to have a marriage so awesome that you don’t have to look at the character of a movie or a play and say ‘i wish i had a marriage like this’, your marriage should be better than that because otherwise, Sheytan will come to each one of you and say ‘man i wonder, is there anything better out there, why am I stuck in this?’ Both husband and wife have to work hard to make their relationship work not for yourselves but for your eeman!” IfsMenShouldLooksHardPlayCharacterBeautifulGuyWishWonderWifeHard WorkHusbandRomanticStuckMuslimHusband And WifeInspirational MarriageRomantic MarriageBeautiful Marriage Author:Nouman Ali Khan
“Children model the behavior of adults, on whatever scale is available to them. Ours are growing up in a nation whose most important, influential men - from presidents to the coolest film characters - solve problems by killing people. ... We have taught our children in a thousand ways, sometimes with flag-waving and sometimes with a laugh track, that the bad guy deserves to die.” PeopleMenWayChildrenImportantSometimesCharacterProblemFilmGuyDiesNationsPresidentLaughingGrowing UpGrowingTaughtThousandBehaviorModelsAdultsDeserveMurderOur ChildrenKillingTrackAvailableSolveScalesFlagsBad GuysInfluentialFlag Waving Author:Barbara Kingsolver
“It's important to me that the reader goes on a ride with the characters, that you set context enough to know, "Okay, here's where we are in the world. Now we're just going to go inside this person's head, this guy's heart, this woman's ambitions and take it down to very, very small scale."” KnowsWorldHeartPersonsImportantEnoughCharacterGuyGoes OnReaderAmbitionOkayScalesThis Guy Author:Don Winslow
“It has to be said that the bad guys are often more interesting than the good guys because you get to indulge part of your nature that hopefully gets subsumed most of the time. But I just like playing interesting characters, and variety's the spice of that, as it is with life, I suppose.” SaidCharacterGuyInterestingVarietyHopefullyBad GuysIndulgeSpicesGood GuyInteresting Characters Author:David Tennant
“I've tried the female thing. I was in a movie called Dinner for Schmucks a couple of years ago with Steve Carell and I created a female character for that movie. And after a few months of trying her out on the road it just didn't work. I mean, I can think like a terrorist, I can think like a white trash guy, I can even try and think like an African American, but I can't figure out how a woman.” ThinkingTryingYearsMeanI CanCharacterGuyWhiteFiguresMonthsCoupleFemaleYears AgoDinnerTerroristAfrican AmericanTrashFemale CharactersWhite TrashSchmucks Author:Jeff Dunham
“After appearing for eight seasons as a beloved character on 'Supernatural,' it's not surprising that I get most of my recognition on the street from that, and it happens with some frequency. But I'm not a guy who gets recognized often.” CharacterHappensGuyStreetsSeasonsEightRecognitionBelovedSurprisingFrequencyAppearing Author:Jim Beaver
“I was always attracted to the type of cinema hero as an adolescent growing up in Ireland. Robert Mitchum springs to mind. Later on, it was Steve McQueen to a certain extent and Charles Bronson. They're these types of grizzled characters who had one foot on the side of law and order and the other foot in the bad guy's camp.” MindCharacterLawGuyCertainOrderSidesGrowing UpGrowingFeetTypeHeroSpringCinemaCampsIrelandBad GuysLaw And OrderMcqueen Author:Liam Neeson
“Only in rock music and the literary world you see so many ugly white guys with beautiful women. That says a lot about the women, their character. They're attracted to more than surface.” WorldCharacterBeautifulGuyWhiteRocksUglySurfaceBeautiful WomenRock MusicWhite Guys Author:Sherman Alexie
“I love the gothic literature. It always has such great stories with characters bigger than life and the stakes are always high. And because there's always a wolf at the door, the emotions are high; the romance, the sexuality, friendships, and relationships. You don't know if the guy kissing you one minute is going to bite you the next. This heightens all of the sensibilities and emotions, and therefore, it sings to me. And that's where the music comes from.” IfsKnowsCharacterStoriesRomanceGuyNextLiteratureEmotionDoorsMinutesKissingBiggerSexualityBitesStakesSensibilityGothicOne MinuteKissing YouBigger Than LifeFriendships And Relationships Author:Frank Wildhorn
“It was fun yet challenging to play the dual roles. I'm a really nice guy, and the character [of Dubious] is egocentric and hard-edged, so I had to pull out the negative aspects of me to attribute to the role.” HardPlayCharacterGuyFunChallengesRolesNiceNegativeAspectAttributesReally NiceNice GuyDubiousEgocentric Author:Carson Grant
“And if I was going to go there – the only person you can really compare Batman to, of those characters, would be Iron Man, another rich guy who has the ability to make fantastic toys – so if you want to take Batman and Iron Man and put them in a battle, that’s an interesting battle. But if you want to take Christian Bale and Robert Downey Jr. and put them in a UFC fighting cage, Christian Bale will – to quote Full Metal Jacket – tear Robert Downey Jr.’s head off and sh-t down his neck.” IfsMenWantPersonsCharacterWould BeChristianGuyFightingAbilityInterestingRichTearsBattleFantasticCompareNecksIronMetalsToysCagesJacketsUfcIron ManRobert Downey Author:Matthew Modine
“Well, Ive always been a character actor, you know, and you always get your share of character actors who are bad guys.” KnowsWellsCharacterGuyActorsShareBad GuysCharacter Actors Author:Colm Meaney
“I'm good when I've got a bit of an edge, like the Clint Eastwood type of archetypal character. The tough guy that doesn't say a lot.” CharacterGuyBitsTypeToughEdgesTough Guy Author:Scott Adkins
“My role models were always the Pacinos and the Oldmans, the guys who get dirty with their characters, and I arrived in L.A. during the big boom of 'Dawson's Creek.' I was getting cast as the boy next door, or the friend of the jock. I thought, 'Did I really have to do all that studying?'” CharacterBigsGuyNextBoysRolesStudyDoorsModelsCastsDirtyRole ModelsJocksCreeks Author:Gabriel Mann
“Playing Destroyo, who was sort of a 'Silence Of The Lambs' type character, I'd say I was wearing about 50 pounds of rubber and foam rubber and makeup. But I had no idea who The Tick was. I'm not a big graphic-novel guy. I don't even know if 'The Tick' was a graphic novel!” IfsKnowsIdeasCharacterBigsGuySilenceNovelTypeNo IdeaMakeupPoundsGraphicLambsRubberTickFoamGraphic Novels Author:Kurt Fuller
“Everybody thinks that 2-D is Damon, but none of the characters are based on any of us. 2-D is the classic stupid pretty boy singer. He's the fall guy, the stooge. Everyone takes the piss out of him. He had a car accident where he went through the windscreen and ended up with two bumps on his head. It knocked some cool into him” ThinkingTwoCharacterGuyFallBoysCarStupidAccidentsSingersClassicBumpsCar AccidentDamonStoogesPretty Boy Author:Jamie Hewlett
“The most difficult thing has definitely been movies. From a comedian's standpoint, you think being real big is the best thing, but with movies, the screen is huge, you're big anyway! Also, coming from a TV personality - MTV was all about high energy and selling the hottest video - I had to learn to [take it down]. A lot of characters I'm playing are not necessarily that kind of guy.” ThinkingKindRealCharacterBigsGuyEnergyDifficultTvsHugePersonalityScreensVideoSellingComedianBest ThingsBeing RealDifficult ThingsStandpointMtvHottestHigh Energy Author:Bill Bellamy
“When I was in school, I was always writing scripts and dressing up as characters. I'd constantly be that guy who'd get up on stage. I used to write imaginary TV shows, like soap operas, for fun.” WritingCharacterShowsSchoolUsedGuyFunStageTvsScriptsGet UpOperaImaginaryTv ShowsDressingsSoapThat GuyDressing UpSoap OperasWriting Scripts Author:Chris Lilley
“Guy Gavriel Kays Tigana is, in my opinion, one of the best, if not the best fantasy novel ever written. Its beautifully written, the characters are unforgettable, the worldbuilding is exquisite.” IfsCharacterGuyOpinionFantasyNovelWrittenExquisiteUnforgettableFantasy Novels Author:David B. Coe